shooting another photographer's wedding is always a mix of excitement and pressure. the pressure, clearly, because your client actually knows what you're doing; the excitement, though, because your client tends to know what works and makes it so much easier :) ...

when a client plans their wedding with the kind of photos they want in mind, and those kind of photos happen to be the kind i love to shoot... that's sort of a dream come true for me. and that was nadia's lovely two-day wedding, both days set at locations and times to give us the ingredients for gorgeous images...

as i got started on kelly and kris's wedding day, i told kris that i was in "photographer heaven", there at doukenie winery on an absolutely perfect late spring afternoon. that experience carried through all the way until the end of the night - an evening of everything i love most about my "job": to be surrounded by such beauty; love brimming into laughter and happiness overflowing into tears. and of course, killer afternoon sunlight…

one of my favorite family sessions from 2013! safiya invited me to her family's house to do some backyard portraits with her little boy, faiz, her husband and her two sisters; i got there with just enough time left in the day to catch the tail end of some pretty magical autumn evening light…